don't have -- >> i'm going to interrupt you donald trump is walking out to the stage right now with mike pence -- i assume that's mike pence walking out right behind him. maybe not. but there is donald trump. let's listen in. >> great honor. great honor. thank you. it's a wonderful day. wow. on a saturday morning yet, isn't that nice? thank you all. and we're going to have an incredible convention. it's going well we're going to have a incredible convention. and we're going to get things solved and we're going to do lots of wonderful things for our country. most importantly. so i'm here today to introduce the man who will be my partner in this campaign. and the white house to fix our rigged system. we are in a rigged rigged

system. and to make safe again, and to make america great again. i want to also address the islamic terror attack in france. we've witnessed horror beyond belief. no matter where you look. and now it's happening more and more. and it's never going to stop. we need new leadership, we need new thinking. we need strength, we need in our country law and order. and if i'm elected president, that will happen. i want to express our unyielding support for the people of france and we mourn their loss as a nation. and as far as turkey is

concerned, so many friends in turkey, great people, amazing people. we wish them well. it looks like they're resolving the difficulty, but we wish them well. a lot of anguish last night. but hopefully it will all work out. now, as hopefully the next president of the united states, i want to refer back to what's happened over the years. the middle east today is more unstable than ever before. never been like this. out of control. after four years of clinton, who really led the way and led obama down a horrible path -- because i don't even think he could have made these decisions so badly. she led him right down a horrible path. he didn't know what he was doing, iraq, syria, all into chaos. and iran is on a path to nuclear weapons. and on top of that, we gave them

back $150 billion and we didn't get our hostages until the end. now we're seeing unrest in turkey. a further demonstration of the failures of obama/clinton. you have to look, every single thing they touched has turned to horrible horrible death defying problems. we also need to bring back in this country, because we see what happened, our industry. our manufacturing. our jobs. they've been taken away like we're babies. taken away. and we're going to bring them back. i found the leader who will help us deliver a safe society and really prosperous society for all americans. indiana governor, mike pence was my first choice. i've admired the work he's done.

especially in the state of indiana. i'm going to go over some of those accomplishments in just a minute. i also admire the fact he fights for the people and he's going to fight for you. he is a solid solid person. [ applause ] governor pence served indiana with distinction in congress. he rose to leadership and served as the chairman of the entire house republican conference. number one. he's really got the skills of a highly talented executive. leading the state of indiana to jobs, growth and opportunity in spite of the relentless obstacles put in his way and every state's way by the obama administration. it's horrible out there. high taxes, and regulations. and it's out of control.

mike pence is a man of honor, character, and honesty. we know that. hillary clinton is the embodiment of corruption. she's a corrupt person. what she's done with her e-mails, so many things, i see the ads up all the time. the ads, she's totally bought and paid for by wall street, the special interests, the lobbyists. 100%. she's crooked hillary. [ applause ] and i think that while she got away with murder, in fact i think it might be her greatest accomplishment, escaping the recent scandal and her lies and the loss of 33,000 e-mails. but it wasn't a loss. she discarded them.

that in of itself is a major crime. other people have been paying tremendous prices for what they've done which is peanuts compared to what happened with hillary clinton. 33,000 e-mails are missing, and that's okay? didn't give them to the fbi? didn't give them to the attorney general and that's okay. wipes her server clean, that's okay. these are crimes. these are crimes. and how she got away with it, i think i understand it, i think a lot of people don't. i do believe while she didn't pay the price she should have paid, she's going to pay that price when november 8th rolls around. she's going to pay it at the polls. i believe that. [ applause ]

on top of everything else hillary made $26 million making speeches to special interests in a short period of time. she's totally owned by wall street. we believe in americanism. she believes in globalism. it's not that she believes in it the people who give her all this money believe in it. she'll believe in whatever they want her to believe. believe me, that's it. [ applause ] what a difference between crooked hillary clinton and mike pence. [ applause ] mike pence will never be afraid to speak the name of our enemy, radical islam, radical islamic terrorism. you saw it the other day with the truck, screaming out the window, you heard what he was screaming out the window. you saw it in san bernardino. you saw it at the world trade

center. you saw it in orlando. ho how horrible was that? you saw it in paris. you see it all over. and hillary is a weak person. we are the law and order candidates. and we're the law and order party. we're going to change things around. there's going to be respect again for law and order. [ applause ] hillary clinton's foreign policy helped launch isis. you know, she's talking, i see the ads she puts on. if i make one statement, which is fine she'll take that statement and put it on a totally dishonest -- she's got a lot of money because it's given to her by lobbyists and special interests, got a lot of money.

i see the ads about foreign policy, she said donald trump doesn't have foreign policy experience. of course not i've been a very successful businessman. if you look at my calls, don't go into iraq, nobody cared i was a businessperson, a civilian. take the oil, many, many calls i've made. you take a look. i said that in scotland and in the uk that was going to happen. i was the one that predicted it. and everybody said he's wrong, he's wrong. president obama said if it happens they're going to get to the back of the line, which probably is one of the reasons they lost. of course i consider it a win, i think it was a win for them, actually. because they don't want to be told what to do. and they don't want to be told that when people pour into the country, they have to take them even if they're not qualified. even if they don't have paperwork. even if they have no idea where they come from. and i said that brexit's going to happen. i said that they are going to

break away. and everybody laughed at me. the odds were 20%. when it happened, she took an ad saying donald trump said this or that. i'm the one who said it was going to happen. some of the more fair reporters, about 30% of them, said he was right. i appreciate that. 70% didn't. so that's okay. mike pence will never be afraid to speak the name of our enemy. so important. now, i think if you look at one of the big reasons i chose mike -- one of the reasons is party unity. i have to be honest. so many people have said party unity because i'm an insioutsid. this wasn't close y won in a landslide, this wasn't close. [ applause ]

this wasn't close. in the history of the republican party, history. with 17 people running. you have to understand, other people ran against one, two and three. with 17, we got, i say we because i'm the messager, i'm a messager. we got almost 14 million votes, that's more than any other person in the history of the republican party. and the primary system running for president. think of it. that's more than ronald reagan who we loved. more than richard nixon, more than dwight d. eisenhower. it's more than the bushes. i mean by a lot. i don't mean by a little. that's with 17 people. that means our message is unbelievable. and i want to thank all of the loyal people -- i have such loyal unbelievable people and

they displayed that just yesterday in cleveland where it's going to be so amazing. they displayed it. it was on display where we had this group of people who many of whom i've known and i won't say -- for party unity i'll say they're wonderful people. never trump, never going to win. they got crushed and got crushed immediately. because people want what we're saying to happen. they're tired of a country that has horrible trade deals. that has no borders. that has taxes that are through the roof. highest taxed nation just about in the world. that has regulations thapt don't allow you to start a business and destroy your business if you do start. speaking of destroying businesses we're going to take care of the minoers and steelworkers we're going to put them back to work. so they're very tired of it.

but i want to thank all of those people that delegates that were on the different committees because, boy, was that something. did we show them something? and, unfortunately, the vote was veryila very late. we had 112 to 12. this was the vote that was going to put it on to the floor. people want the wall, they want the borders, they want these things to happen. and what we're doing -- [ applause ] and what we're doing that i'm so proud of, so proud -- nobody else would think about doing it. i fought very hard for it. we'll call it the johnson amendment where he took away from the evangelicals, i want to thank the evangelicals because without them i could not have won the nomination. the evangelicals have been unbelievable. i dominated with the evangelicals, a lot of people were surprised.

they say he's not perfect. but do you know what? they know i'm going to get the job done and they're really smart. and i said -- [ applause ] and i said for the evangelicals that we're going to do something that nobody's tried to do. you have to johnson amendment passed by lyndon johnson and his group. he was a powerful president, knew how to get things done. he got bogged down in a war that was a disaster and it destroyed him. he was a powerful president. and we call it the johnson amendment, where you are just absolutely shunned if you're evangelical, if you want to talk religion. you lose your tax exempt status. we put into the platform -- we're going to get rid of that horrible johnson amendment. and we're going to let evangelicals, we're going to let christians and jews and people of religion talk without being

afraid to talk. i saw this. i had so many great leaders, so many times up to my office, the top, absolute top evangelical leaders, christian leaders, jewish leaders, believe it or not, some muslim leaders, people are going to be surprised to hear that. i had the top leaders up to my office and i said why is it that you're so powerful as an individual and yet when you get out there you're sort of timid? and they didn't know how to answer the question. it took two three meetings before i figured it out. one great great gentleman everybody knows but whose name i will not reveal. mr. trump, we live in fear in our churches, and our synagogues, we live in fear that we're going to lose our tax exempt status if we say anything that's slightly political. and i looked out the window -- i was in trumpatory a tower and p

to people walking down the street. they have the right to speak but you don't. that means they're more powerful than you are. we have to do something about it. how did it start? how did it start? and they said it started because of lyndon johnson and he actually had a problem in texas with a certain religious leader and he did this and got it done. we're going to undo it so that religious leaders in this country and those unbelievable people -- and not because they backed me in such large numbers -- but so that religion can again have a voice. because religion's voice has been taken away. and we're going to change that. okay? all right. [ applause ] back to mike pence. so one of the primary reasons i chose mike was i looked at indiana and i won indiana big. remember, indiana was going to be the firewall. that's where trump was going

down. they agreed i'd win new york, pennsylvania, win all these places. indiana was going to be the firewall. so i got to study indiana. and i got to study new york and a lot of other places and i saw how nafta signed by bill clinton has drained our manufacturing jobs. just drained us. like we've nrve been drained before. nafta, again, signed by bill clinton. nafta is the worst economic deal in the history of our country. manufacturing down in some states, 55%, 60%. it's a horror show moving to mexico, moving to other places. i have a friend who is a great builder. what he builds is plants. that's all he does is bill plants. he doesn't build buildings, he builds plants, biggest in the world from what i hear. i said how is business? i was with him the other day. how's business? he said unbelievable.

really, wow, why is it unbelievable? because i think of him as building in the country. what we're doing in mexico you won't believe. i said what do you mean? he said we're building plants in mexico the likes of which we've never seen. i said what about this country? not much. not much. that's the expression. he said exactly that. not much. i said but mexico? he said you've never seen anything like it. it's incredible. folks, that's going to stop. we're going to go reverse it. we're going to bring our jobs back to this country. we can't be the stupid people anymore. okay? and he was better than a pollster. he's better than a consultant. how are we doing, and you get a big report that cost you million dollars. me i give them $10,000. doesn't cost me millions. cost other people millions. cost other campaigns millions to get a report. every time they get a report it's millions.

i tell you what, a guy like this, is better than anybody you can hire to do a report. and he said it, he didn't say it from the standpoint of he's upset about it. just fact. how are you doing unbelievable in mexico. he actually said i've never ever seen anything like it. if you look, ford is building massive plants there. instead of michigan. we want them to build in michigan. they could have built them in michigan. you know that i know how to do that. so easy. so easy. but they're not going to do and take advantage of us without t retributions there are impacts when you move to another country. there are consequences. those consequences are going to keep companies in our country. very simple. everybody here knows what the consequences are. but i won't say that because i'm much more interested right now in mike.

indiana's unemployment rate -- this is the primary reason i wanted mike. other than he looks very good. other than he's got an incredible family. incredible wife and family. karen is amazing. [ applause ] incredible family. highly respected. expected to go for another four years. he would have won i think very easily in indiana. indiana, their unemployment rate has fallen when he was there, when he started 8.4% when he was governor, when he took over. to less than 5% in may of 2016. since january 2013, indiana's labor force has increased by more than 186,000 jobs. i've gone around to all these states, i've gone to all of them. every time i have statisticians. i say give me the stats on the

state. it's always bad, down, down, down. down 40%, 50%, 60% in some cases. here's somebody where it's gone up. private sector job growth is up by more than 147,000 jobs since 2013. that's like, very unusual. governor pence balanced the budget -- can you imagine a balanced budget? our budget's so out of whack we don't go what we're doing. we're going to owe very soon $21 trillion. he balanced the budget. they don't know what that means. governor pence balanced the budget, produced a surplus and maintains a $2 billion reserve fund in the state of indiana. it's also rated aaa, their bonds are rated aaa. very few states have that. aaa. the best, that's as good as you can get whether you're a company, a state. aaa. indiana was recently recognized

by chief executive magazine as the number one state in the midwest for business. number one. and it's not even close. there are approximately 34,000 fewer hoosiers on unemployment insurance now than they were when mike pence took office. so you have fewer hoosiers, fewer people from indiana besides that bobby knight, my friend who really did help me. if you want a reference, bobby knight in indiana, we love bobby knight. but he agrees with everything i'm saying. he loves the governor. indiana has the second lowest unemployment rate in the nation. for veterans, where nobody is fighting for the veterans like i'm fighting for the veterans, they've been left behind. a few months ago hillary clinton said they're doing much better.

the va is much better. >> they're doing a much better job than people give it credit for. people are dying in line waiting five six days for doctors. it's a scandal. take a look at what's happening wp the va in arizona. take a look at what's happening with the veteran's administrations hospital. it's a scandal. it's corrupt, it's incompetent. it's a scandal. hillary clinton thought it was just fine. and boy am i going to win big with the veterans. we know that for a fact. [ applause ] it's 2.4% for veterans. in 2013, when mike pence took office, the rate for veterans was 6.7%, 31st in the nation one of the bad ones. now it's almost the best. got them jobs, got them jobs. indianapolis is ranked second in

top ten metro areas for young college graduates. that's a great thing they're going to stay there. mike worked hard he was telling me that was not easy. under governor pence's leadership indiana enacted the largest k-12 education funding increase in the state's history. you're balancing budgets and yet you're givepathiing more money education, isn't that a great thing? [ applause ] indiana has just about the largest school choice program in america. school choice is where it's at, folks, you want to get your schools better. got to get rid of common core fast. governor pence enacted the largest income tax cut in the state's history. think of that. we're cutting tax and balancing budgets. and along with corporate tax reform, just about number one in the country. cnbc ranked indiana first in the

nation for its infrastructure. so with all of these cuts and all of these balancing budgets, we're spending more money on education and the infrastructure is kept up. that had so much -- look, as a builder, nobody's in the history of this country has known so much about infrastructure as donald trump. i build infrastructure. do i know how to build a wall? do i know how to build infrastructure? it's very interesting, we're building -- i won the -- which is amazing under the obama administration, but i won the right to have the old post office building on pennsylvania avenue right near the white house. and it's an amazing -- probably the best location. one of the most sought after projects of the gsa general services. i really like what's happened, we're going to have an opening very soon, ivanka and eric and don did a fantastic job on it.

but i thought the other day i was going over the numbers, we are under budget, and about a year, actually more than a year, but we're a year ahead of schedule and we're under budget substantially and the quality of the work is even better than we originally were going to do. [ applause ] and when i explained to a government representative that we're under budget and ahead of schedule they almost fell off they've never heard those words before. they never heard it. when i see what happened to indiana, which was having tremendous problems, when i see what happened to indiana under mike's work, also his predecessor did a great job, by the way, great job. who is now a duke, who is now at purdue. who i see what happened with respect to the numbers, the state, and everything else, that to me, was probably the single

most important point because it's something that hasn't happened almost has not happened in this whole country. the turn around and the strength of indiana has been incredible. and i learned that when i campaigned there. and i learned that when i won that state in a landslide. and i learned that when governor pence under tremendous pressure from establishment people endorsed somebody else but it was more of an endorsement for me. if you remember. he talked about trump. then he talked about ted who is a good guy by the way who is going to be speaking at the convention, ted cruz, good guy. but he talked about trump, ted then he went back to trump. i said who did he endorse? even though he was under pressure, because i'm so -- you know, outside of the establishment, it was the single greatest non-endorsement i've

never had in my life. okay, i will tell you. [ applause ] with that, i would like to introduce a man who i truly believe will be outstanding in every way and will be the next vice president of the united states, governor mike pence. thank you. thank you, everybody. thank you. [ applause ] >> on behalf of my family here and looking on, would you join me in thanking donald trump, mulania and his entire family and the sacrifices that are making to make america great again.

[ applause ] i thank donald trump for the confidence you've placed in us. and i accept your invitation to run and serve as vice president of the united states of america. [ applause ] you know, i come to this moment deeply humbled but with a grateful heart. grateful to god for his amazing grace. grateful to my wonderful wife, karen and our three incredible kids, michael, charlotte and audrey. and grateful to this builder, this fighter, this patriotic american who has set aside a legendary career in business to build a stronger america.

donald j. trump. [ applause ] let me say, having had the privilege to spend time with this man and his family out of the limelight, i know what all of america will soon know even better, these are good people. donald trump is a good man and he will make a great president of the united states of america. [ applause ] donald trump understands the frustrations and the hopes of the american people like no leader since ronald reagan. the american people are tired. we're tired of being told. we're tired of being told that this is as good as it gets. we're tired of having politicians in both parties in washington, d.c. tell us we'll get to those problems tomorrow. and as ronald reagan said, we're

tired of being told that a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan our lives better for us than we can plan them for ourselves. donald trump gets it. and he understands the american people. [ applause ] i truly am deeply humbled to be at his side today. and when i got this call last wednesday, i could only think of that ancient question, who am i oh, lord and who is my family that you have brought us this far. so let me try and answer that question for a few minutes. people who know me well know i'm a pretty basic guy. i'm a christian, a conservative and a republican in that order. [ applause ] while i'm currently have the

privilege of serving the state that i love i'm just a small town boy who grew up in southern indiana with a big family and a cornfield in the back yard. like donald trump my grandfather emigrated to this country. in many ways i grew up with a front row seat to the american dream. i watched my mom and dad build everything that matters. a family, a business, and a good name. the heroes of my youth were john f kennedy and dr. martin luther king, jr. i started in politics in the other party. but when i came of age, i was inspired by the ideals and the eloquence of our 40th president, and i became a republican. the most important thing in my life was 31 years ago i married the girl of my dreams, karen pence who will make a great second lady of the united states of america. [ applause ]

and while this office is an extraordinary office to which to aspire, the highest role i will ever play is dad. i'm a proud father of a college student a graduate turned writer and a united states marine. [ applause ] you know, my career i ran for congress before the republican revolution led by newt gingrich in 1994. i wasn't successful. by the time i got elected to washington, d.c., sometimes i felt like i was elected after it was over. from almost my first day in congress, i found myself battling the big spenders in both political parties. whether opposing no child left behind, the prescription entitlement or the wall street bailout, i fought every single

day for taxpayers and fiscal responsibility. when i was a member of the congress of the united states. after the republicans lost the congress in 2006 i was actually unanimously elected to serve in leadership. and we fought back against the nancy pelosi congress. we opposed obamacare, we opposed the tax increases, we opposed the cap and trade and i was part of the team that won the congress back from democrat control in 2010. [ applause ] and all that happened before i went back home again to indiana. but i want to say i answered this call for two reasons. first, because i know from first hand experience that strong republican leadership can bring about real change. just like we've seen in the hoosier state.

secondly, because hillary clinton must never become president of the united states of america. [ applause ] now, on the first point i know what i'm talking about. you know, in indiana we prove every day you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes, even while making record investments in education, roads and healthcare. we like to say indiana's a state that works, and it does. indiana works because republican principles work every time you put them into practice. today we have a $2 billion surplus and the highest credit rating in t indiana. businesses large and small have

created nearly 150,000 net new jobs and we have more hoosiers going to work than ever before in the 200 year history of the great state of indiana. that's what republican leadership gets you. and let me say from my heart, that's what the no no sense leadership of donald j. trump will bring to washington, d.c. but elections are about choices. elections are about choices. and i also joined this ticket because the choice could not be more clear, the stakes could not be higher. americans can choose a leader who will fight to make america safe and prosperous again and bring real change or we can elect someone who literally personifies the failed establishment in washington, d.c. seven and a half years of barack

obama and hillary clinton's policies have weakened america's place in the world and stifled our nation's economy. terrorists attacks at home and abroad, grim and heartbreaking scenes from france just a few short days ago, the attempted coup in turkey, all a test to a world spinning apart. history teaches us that weakness arouses evil. hillary clinton and barack obama's foreign policy of leading from behind, moving red lines, feigning resets with a resur gentleman russia and the rise of isis is a testament to the truth of history and we must bring a change to america's stand in the world. we cannot have four more years apologizing to our enemies and

abandoning our friends. america needs to be strong for the world to be safe. on the world stage, donald trump will lead from strength, he will rebuild the arsenal of democracy, stand with our allies and hunt down and destroy the enemies of our freedom. and at home the choice is just as clear. donald trump wants to cut taxes, hillary clinton plans to raise taxes, on working families, small businesses and family farms. where donald trump is committed to repeal obamacare lock stock and barrel, hillary clinton looks at obamacare as a good start and wants to take bernie sanders' path down to single pair socialized medicine. donald trump supports an all of the above strategy and will end

the war on coal, hillary clinton actually promised an energy plan that would close american coal mines and put coal miner out of work. where donald trump wants to build a wall and temporarily suspend immigration by countries compromised by terrorism, hillary clinton plans to ignore the supreme court, reimpose executive amnesty and would increase, increase our refugee program by more than 500%. and where donald trump will appoint justices like the late antonin scalia who will uphold our constitution, hillary clinton will appoint supreme court justices who will legislate from the bench, abandon the sanctity of life and rewrite our second amendment. to every american who shares our convictio convictions, i say to you, join us. for the same of our security, for the sake of our prosperity,

for the sake of a supreme court that will never turn its back on our god given liberties, let's come together. as a party and a people and a movement to make america great again and that day begins when donald trump becomes the 45th president of the united states of america. thank you for the honor. thank you for your support. and god bless the united states of america. ♪ ♪ >> there they are, the pence family and donald trump out there as well, donald trump introducing mike pence as his

vice pedestrian dental running mate. you see some of the trump children who have come as well. they were very instrumental in this decision to pick mike pence. i don't know if donald trump is going to speak any more. there was some suggestion that this was a news conference and he might answer some questions. doesn't look like that's going to happen. music is playing. donald trump spoke for what, almost 40 minutes or so, making his case, speaking why he should be the next president of the united states and also making the case of why he selected mike pence as his running mate. >> there's nothing conventional about this. we're used to huge rallies. the two of them coming out together, hands in the air, the victory signs and all of the rest. this is donald trump who took 20

minutes to say back to mike pence. >> 28 minutes. >> thank you, dana bash. 28 minutes. and donald trump gave a speech about himself, his candidacy and why hillary clinton needed to be defeated and then finally started talking about mike pence and why he chose mike pence. he did, however, talk about -- and he said one of the big reasons that he had picked mike pence is because of party unity. he was very honest about that. he said i'm on outsider. but for the beginning of this speech, wolf, it seemed as if we all were kind of waiting for a cameo appearance from mike pence. very, very different from the rousing kind of introductions we usually see in campaigns of one candidate with another. i mean donald trump did talk about the value of mike pence on the ticket and how important he is. and pence did give a very conventional speech in response, praising donald trump. but this is nothing like any

introductions to america that we've seen of vice presidential candidates in the past. >> trump spoke for 28 minutes, pence spoke for 14, 15 minutes. >> but he had to say, back to mike pence. we ar all sort of waiting for him to appear. and we're told he was sort of standing off stage waiting for his moment to enter. >> yeah, exactly. but if you sift through the discussions about his properties and about his friends who are builders, you did -- you can find a couple of very, very key comments that donald trump made about this decision. two things. one is, he said he's a solid, solid person, which is, at his core, what mike pence is. but more importantly what the people in team trump were looking for. a ying to his yang. someone who is salt of the earth, middle america. the other thing he said --

>> he said, i have to be honest. i'm thinking about party unity. >> i am an outsider. he said explicitly what most candidates would never say. one of the reasons that he chose him was because of party unity because he is an outsider. and the fact that he just laid that out there was really, really interesting to me. >> it's as if you get to see his internal conversation with himself and his aides laid out publicly for you. he's honest about it. this is why i chose pence. >> and e thought just looking at it, if you're an average american tuning in, looking at mike pence for the first time, let's face it, not a lot of americans know m